Peter Munz

Rest in peace, Hofi, condolences to those who remain.

Hello,

I know, it´s a older post, but I found this:

https://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/wallbrecher_peter.phtml

greetings from Baden-Wuerttemberg, Peter

Well,

here in germany we´re using ash, robinia and sometimes maple and  "Eibe".

The wood grain in my handles are paralell to the blow, because the wood is in thid direction much more flexible and it prevents my hand, wrist and arm from shocks.

I´ve learned this way from the dad of my old chief, alltogeter blacksmiths sice 5 generations, maybe it´s wrong, but we have had no problems in the shop.

The last 5 years we´re glueing the handles with polyurethane - wonderful to work with it! Much less shocks!

btw, the grain in axe handles are in line with the blow, because of more strength in removing the axehead out of the wood when it stucks.

sorry for my bad and imperfect english

Peter

Hello,

I have removed all wedges out of my hammerhandles and now they are glued in the heads with "sikaflex 11 fc" , the same stuff that Mr.Hofi used. Must say, it works pretty well now for 5 years. when the 11 fc is hardened, the handles are rasped, sanded and burnt black with torchflame. At last a little coating with "WD .." to prevent the bad insects - wood worms - .

That´s my way.

Greetings from germany

Peter

Hi,

this is another wonderful way to recycle steel.

Peter

Das Ding ist mal nobel!!

Gruß Peter

That´s it! :D

Peter

Woah,

that is really the finest toolbox I ever have seen.

Peter

Hallo Hannes,

die Zangen sehen gut aus.

Ich mache mir meine auch aus Federstahl (bei gleicher Stabilität weniger Gewicht)

Peter----------------hoffentlich zeigst Du noch mehr

and for our american friends :) :

Hello Hannes,

the tongs looks great

I make my tongs also from spring steel (the same stability by a fewer weight)

Peter----------------hope to see more from you

Grüss Gott Daniel,

Ich muss sagen:"Deine Arbeiten gefallen mir!"

Grüße aus dem Schwabenland

Peter

and for our no-german friends:

Howdy Daniel,

I must say:" I like your works! " - thumbs up!!

Greetings from the Swabian Jura (wiki :D )

Peter

(a little more in the south than Frankfurt)

For scool classes I make a small horseshoe (from 20x5x120mm flat) and a nail ( 8mm round) to hang it up.

Time to forge it out: horseshoe 15min, nail 5min

Peter

Thanks for sharing,

a great idea!!

I think this would be a nice work for me to show the visitors in the museum in our town.

Peter

(I hope, you permit it to me)

Oh oh,

without a mechanical hammer it would be a lot of work for me to forge such an axe. :D

Peter

Great work,

Peter

looks like a Brent Bailey´s hammer.

Well done!

Peter

My comment:

I enjoy glueing the hammer handles. Such as Mr.Hofi with sikaflex 11FC.

Epoxy seems to me inappropriate because it will be tough and may break out.

Peter

-in former times I dryed the handles in the stove and used wooden wedges, sawed by hand -

The glue that I am useing to hendle the hammer is SIKAFLES 11 FC AND I ONLY GLUE THE HANDLES AND NEVER WEDGE.
I glued already hundreds of hammers in many sizes ans none of them went loos.
the hammer eye is having a duble taperd cone (x) to the middle of the eye 3 degrees.
on the handle on the part that goes into the eye I grind surretions all around that hold the glue much better.
beffor smearing the glue in the eye I clean the eye with thinner to take away any oily remanents for better glueing
Hofi

I agree with Mr. Hofi.

The Sikaflex 11 FC works very well, no loose handles, no flying wedges like I´ve seen in a museum here in germany.

Sometimes I also work in a museum and so I have glued about 25 hammers and there are NO problems!

Safety first for my visitors!

Thank you Mr. Hofi.

Peter

extremly wonderful work!!

phew, looks pretty good!!

@ dabbsterinn

I know what you mean, last summer, I have seen an blacksmith forging this way some spearheads.

But he forge welded in a piece of a round steelbar (half of length) to form a strong tip.

Peter

"there are many roads to walk to Rome" :rolleyes:

me too

it looks like a MUST-HAVE-ONE :)

Peter

THUMBS UP!!

Peter